Maardu (german: Maart) is a town and a municipality in Harju County, Estonia. It is part of Tallinn

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. The town covers an area of 22.76 km² and has a population of 16,170 (as of 1 January 2021). The Port of Muuga, the largest cargo port in Estonia, is partly located in Maardu. According to the 2000 Census, the population was 16,738. 61.7% were Russians, 19.9% Estonians, 6.6% Ukrainians, 5.7%

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, 1.5% Tatars, 0.9% Finns, 0.6%

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, 0.5%

Lithuanians Lithuanians ( lt, lietuviai) are a Baltic ethnic group. They are native to Lithuania, where they number around 2,378,118 people. Another million or two make up the Lithuanian diaspora, largely found in countries such as the United States, Uni ...

, 0.2% Latvians, 0.2% Germans and 0.1% Jews and 1 Cuban. The proportion of Estonians was one of the lowest (if not the lowest) in Central and Western Estonia. Outside the town (in Maardu village), south of the road to Narva lies Maardu manor, one of the oldest preserved baroque manor houses in Estonia. It traces its origins to 1389, but the current building dates from the 1660s with additions made in the 19th century. The landlord of the manor Herman Jensen Bohn in 1739 funded the printing of the first bible printed in Estonian.

Maardu neighborhoods

Maardu may be divided into six parts: *

Kallavere Kallavere is a village in Jõelähtme Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. It's located about northeast of Tallinn, just east of Kallavere, the main part the town of Maardu. Kallavere village has a population of 142 (as of 1 January 2010) ...

(the centre of the city where most of the public institutions are located) * Muuga Harbour * Muuga aedlinn (former garden city, now a light residential suburb more connected to Tallinn than Kallavere) *

Kärmu Kärmu is a village in Haljala Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland acro ...

(industrial area) * Kroodi (industrial area) *

Lake Maardu Lake Maardu ( et, Maardu järv; also known earlier as Lake Liivakandi) is a lake on the southern side of the town of Maardu, in northern Estonia. It has an area of , max. depth is and the lake is above sea-level. Lake Maardu was a natural wat ...

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Iru thermal power plant Iru Power Plant is a co-generation power plant in Iru village, Maardu, Estonia. It is owned by Enefit Green, a subsidiary of Eesti Energia. The plant has a heating capacity of . History The first unit of power plant was commissioned in 1978. In ...

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File:Maardu manor.jpg, Maardu manor house File:Maardu sunset.jpg, Apartment buildings at sunset

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* {{Authority control Cities and towns in Estonia Populated places in Harju County Municipalities of Estonia Russian communities

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